This week, Friday Film Club once more presents the musical genius of Quincas Moreira in the hit film... Don't forget to like and subscribe for your Tropicanza train fix ..read more

This week's Friday Film Club is off to Chelmer, a glorious non-descript station in Brisbane's west for a spot of train watching! Don't forget to like and subscribe so you don't miss a minute of the free fun and folly ..read more

My Pacific National era sugar hopper fleet recently received some attention. I finally managed to catch up on some weathering that had been waiting for me to complete for my own layout. In this case, the Auscision Models HO scale NSW NGGF sugar hoppers that will typify operations on my NSW North Coast layout. Having had some of my own photos to work from that I had snapped on a visit to Grafton where the Sunshine Sugar silo stands on the southern banks of the Clarence River, I could carefully copy some of the weathering patterns on these great looking hoppers. My results were a c ..read more

This week's Friday Film Club takes a look at Brisbane's Northgate Station, where there's plenty of train action at the junction of the Shorncliffe and North Coast lines. Subscribe to get access to my exclusive early bird premieres ..read more

My book review in the March 2024 Australian Model Railway News! How the year has flown. We're in April already, but it still only feels like the beginning of the year! From the excitement of knowing my book Revamp An Existing Layout was queued for printing with my publisher as I rang in New Year's Eve for 24', to rolling-out the book to hobby shops across Australia, and finally organising some form of promotion on a shoestring budget, you know your book has finally arrived in front of the eyes of potential model railway readers once it is featured on Australian Model Railway News, (link to ..read more

Summer might be officially over, but here's some Trains Gone Troppo on a Hot Summer's night for your Friday Film Club. Don't forget to like and subscribe to keep hearing the joyful vibes of Quincas Moreira ..read more

My layout is once more feeling 'sweet-as' following the arrival of my new Auscision Models C44ACI locomotive in the attractive Aurizon 'pineapple' livery, (pineapple field added for effect). Although you would be forgiven for describing the yellow locomotive as a banana given that my layout is set in a town where the Big Banana reigns supreme! While revamping Philden Beach over these past 12 months has seen my layout's setting become more modern, finding any suitable small locomotives to act as the yard shunter has proven to be a prickly-sweet affair. However, the sweet new addition of ..read more

Something different for Friday Film Club this week, with a visit to Maydena Railtrack Riders, for a rail bike ride deep into the heart of Tasmania's wilderness! Subscribe to my YouTube channel so you don't miss out on my exclusive upcoming premieres ..read more

This week's Friday Film Club presents the musical genius of Quincas Moreira in the premiere of TRAINS GONE TROPPO - Dirty Diesel Daze. Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss an episode of this Australian train tropicanza ..read more

Time doesn't stand still, and sometimes by taking that approach into our modelling we can instill a sense of modelled history on our layouts. After moving-on some model locomotives last month so that I could afford some new camera gear, I have seemingly farewelled the Noughties era of my HO scale shelf layout. Just like that, the days of seeing twin National Rail Indigenous NR Class locomotives working my layout are over. So too the sight of twin CFCLA leased locomotives resting in the yard. Retiring certain models from your model railway collection can have an instant impact on the era tha ..read more